The big question of 'how physics makes us free'
Can it really be that everything you do is determined by facts that were in place long before you were born?
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News tagged with newton
Tidal disruption event J150052 was caused by a rapidly spinning intermediate-mass black hole, study finds
Using NASA's Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton space telescopes, astronomers from the Radboud University in the Netherlands and elsewhere have conducted X-ray observations of a tidal disruption event designated 3XMM J150052.0+015452, ...
XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular kind of supernova ...
Astronomy
Sep 3, 2009
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New ultraluminous X-ray source detected in galaxy NGC 55
Using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Swift space telescopes, an international team of astronomers have observed a nearby galaxy known as NGC 55. They discovered a new transient ultraluminous X-ray source in this galaxy. The ...
Can newly discovered biology 'law' save lives?
What if doctors in the intensive care unit could predict if and when a patient was about to go into cardiac arrest? They could then be ready when it happened.
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Nov 2, 2011
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XMM-Newton technology on new telescopes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers gazing deep into the night sky to uncover the Universe's secrets will soon be able to discover even more star-births and planets thanks to new telescopes being built in Chile and Mexico drawing ...
Astronomy
Feb 4, 2011
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Students digging into data archive spot mysterious X-ray source
An enigmatic X-ray source revealed as part of a data-mining project for high-school students shows unexplored avenues hidden in the vast archive of ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory.
Astronomy
Aug 10, 2018
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Radiation pressure with recoil: Experimental proof for a 90 year-old theory
Light exerts a certain amount of pressure onto a body: sun sails could thus power space probes in the future. However, when light particles (photons) hit an individual molecule and knock out an electron, the molecule flies ...
General Physics
Jun 15, 2020
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Story of Newton's encounter with apple goes online
(AP) -- It always falls down. That's how the apple helped Isaac Newton.
Other
Jan 18, 2010
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Stephen Hawking's archive, office acquired for UK public
London's Science Museum and the Cambridge University library said Wednesday they have acquired a large collection of items belonging to late physicist Stephen Hawking, from his personalized wheelchairs to landmark papers ...
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May 27, 2021
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